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Rizwan "Riz" Ahmed (Urdu pronunciation: [ɾɪzˌwɑːnˈɛɦˌməd̪]; born 1 December 1982) is a British actor and rapper. He has received several awards, including an Academy Award and a Primetime Emmy Award, with nominations for two Golden Globe Awards and two British Academy Film Awards. In 2017, he was named in the Time Listing of the most influential people in the world. After studying acting at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, Ahmed began his acting career with independent films such as The Road to Guantanamo (2006), Shifty (2008), Four Lions (2010), Trishna (2011), and The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2012). He had his break-out role in Nightcrawler (2014), which led to roles in the 2016 big-budget films Jason Bourne and Rogue One. For starring as a young man accused of murder in the HBO miniseries The Night Of (2016), Ahmed won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series. He received another Emmy nomination in the same year for his guest role in Girls. He went on to play Carlton Drake in the superhero film Venom (2018) and a drummer who loses his hearing in the drama film Sound of Metal (2019). The latter earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor. He produced, co-wrote, and starred in Mogul Mowgli (2020), which earned a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Outstanding British Film. As a rapper, Ahmed is a member of the Swet Shop Boys and has earned critical acclaim with the hip hop albums Microscope and Cashmere and commercial success featuring in the Billboard 200 chart-topping Hamilton Mixtape, with his song "Immigrants (We Get the Job Done)" winning an MTV Video Music Award. His second studio album, The Long Goodbye, was accompanied by a short film of the same name, which won him the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film. As an activist, Ahmed is known for his political rap music, has been involved in raising awareness and funds for Rohingya and Syrian refugee children, and has advocated 'BAME' representation at the House of Commons. Description above from the Wikipedia article Riz Ahmed, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Riz Ahmed
Kurt Wagner
for Kurt Wagner in X-Men Origins: NIGHTCRAWLER
Suggested by navarrosilva
Young Kurt Wagner is found in basket in the river by a circus master and decides to keep him as a crowd pleaser. It is there Kurt discovers of his mutant ability of teleportation. The Circus Master dubs him The Nightcrawler. He works for the Circus for a number of years untill he is made fun of and treated as a freak by the public. Kurt leaves and meets a woman who claims to be her mother, Raven Darkholme, who has the ability to shapeshift. She tells him that his Father and another Dangerous mutant who can minipulate Metal is after him. Now on the run with his mother must stay safe from the public and the mutants after them. Raven is caught and influenced by the other Mutants. Now it's Kurt 'Nightcrawler' Wager is on his own. He soon meets with a girl who also has the ability to teleport [but by throwing portals]. They soon fall in love. They must team up to take on Azazel, Magneto and Mystique.
